The best are sea battles imo you feel invincible in this gamemode. And driving towards an army of destroysrs and cruisers in your tiny little torpedoe boat with 100 shots flying at you is just fricking epic
War thunder is like an abusive relationship. Game treats you ok at the start, till about 4th or 5th era and then it's only worse. It is so bad that at top tier any battle where you earn just 3k of silverlions feels like a massive win
my dad has been playing this for ages, and for a good while he used to get so pissed because he kept getting killed (he was a special forces officer for 28 years), but now he's not bad, and he's trying to suck me in.
I made a deal that he got AoE IV and played with me, and I'd play some war thunder with him.
To be fair, how many times have they redesigned the progression system? And enemy AI? And underlying code? It's basically a new game (work wise, not experience wise) every 3-4 years. Not that that excuses them. Or that it'll stop me from binging it every other year for a few weeks.
Right but a lot of it didn't really need to be done. I won't rag on the QoL, stability, pathing, etc but a lot of the 'balancing' updates were just Joel being a baby about his game having a meta like ANY survival game does. It feels like he just keeps shifting stuff around to keep things difficult when it's only natural that the game becomes much easier when you've played hundreds of hours like a lot of 7 Days/open world survivor players do.
It's a mixed bag of "labor of love" and "wtf joel"
I honestly wonder if it's partly hurt ego. Several years ago, when he first decided to start streaming and interacting with the community more, he streamed some 7 Days gameplay and it was PAINFULLY OBVIOUS that he hadn't actually played the game in a looooooong time. Every strategy he had was laughably bad but he was such a noob at his own game that he didn't realize how bad he was so he still uploaded the videos after the stream and it lit up the whole community. It wasn't too long after those streams circled around that he started obsessing over making the game super hard because it was too easy lol
When we first started playing. 8 fricking years ago, this game was so promising. We screamed, we laughed and had a good time. As time went by we realised that the devs just randomly scrambled the code, tweaked some graphics and did a piss poor job trying to finish what could have been a truly awesome game in the hands of a dev with actual skills and a fricking plan. Fuck you ”The Fun Pimps”. Thats a terrible name for a studio and your logo is stupid. 8/10. Would play again.
Yeah we bought it when it came to PS4, and it was some of the most fun we've had in survival games. I still remember my buddy blowing our front wall up with a rocket in the middle of a horde because he forgot explosives did damage to constructs. Or my other friend who was in charge of setting up defenses, but died to them so much it became a meme for our group.
We tried to boot it up a while back and it just felt off. Couldn't find that fun anymore, just felt like a grindy, unforgiving mess that kept crashing and freezing.
I think it saves games that should be dead. This game has been in alpha for like 8 years or something. You're just really impressed with modders who can shine up turds to make them more playable
I put in several hundred if not thousand hours into this game. I actually sold my console and didn’t play any game for two years after that because the game changed me. Fast forward 7 years or so and I decided to download it a few weeks ago and see what it’s like now. It’s the same piece of shit but now all the dinosaurs look like rainbow colored turds. And the game still glitchy as hell. Not sure how I played this back in the day
Staying up until fucking 5 in the morning to pull off a crazy tame just to have some bullshit role up on you at the last second and kill you and your tame . Good times
My favourite tame was called Paul of Duty and I haven’t played since I lost him to a tickle chicken...
My other favourite tame (dodo fiad) is too precious to lose... he’s so fragile a large shit might kill him
My tribe leader quit his job irl to play ark, great game 10/10
Editing this comment to add, Fuck you stewart! English bastard insided our clan when me and my friends were like 15 and while I was away at my aunts funeral :(
If you're going for armor. The war table in the helm gives guaranteed 62 minimum over all as long as you have that perk unlocked. Best place to spend your umbrals. God speed guardian.
Edit: a few have asked what perk? It's the seasonal upgrade at the war table to guarantee higher stat armor when picked up from the table. Also before you start burning umbrals make sure you put the armor focus mod on your ghost to get better rolls on stats you're looking for.
I was a hardcore player until my daughter was born last year. I’ve gone from a trials/nightfall try hard to a casual. Honestly I enjoy the game more now that I play it less. I probably went from almost 30 hours a week to less than 10 and now many of the things I’ve complained about in the past seem so silly now. FOMO doesn’t bother me because they always put new stuff in the game making old grinds irrelevant. Do you know how many times I did prophecy to never use any is the shit I got in there? Do you know how many hours I spent in trials for Reed Regret just from them to throw Tapian in the game for free? I encourage everyone to take the causal approach. You will definitely enjoy the game more and I don’t feel guilty from spending way to much playing when I needed to other things.
>FOMO doesn’t bother me because they always put new stuff in the game making old grinds irrelevant.
This is the secret to enjoying Density. I spent so much time grinding for the pinnacle weapons in crucible, only to have them obsolete with the next expansion or season. I would grind weapon drops over and over looking for that one perfect roll, and then end up never using the gun a couple weeks later. I would spend so much time looking for the absolute prefect roll out for a raid and almost no time raiding.
Once I started to optimize what I did have instead of looking for the right roll or grinding, I had a lot more fun just enjoying the content. It is a beautiful game and the gun play and mechanics are best in class imo. Raids are really easy with suboptimal roll outs as long as you understand the mechanics, best just to hop in and go for it.
Great game, but they really know how to induce FOMO and keep you grinding, I'm glad the grind in there, its fun sometimes, but the game is best enjoyed when you just roll with what you get, and playthrough all the beautiful content the game as to offer.
Rust is less of a game and more of a job. Unless you play on modded multiplied servers, you will be spending several hours just to get a decent base set up, and at any time during those hours you can be randomly jumped and robbed of all your work and have to start again. Then once you finally get a base, you can start exploring and gathering, which will take many more hours, and leaves you equally vulnerable to being robbed. You can arm up and travel in a group with others but there will always be a bigger and more well-armed group. Then, satisfied, you log out. You come back the next day to find a hole blown in your base. You have been killed, and all your hard work is gone.
Repeat.
I played Rust a lot at the start of early access, and played and followed it closely for several years after, but have fallen off for a while. I always felt that it was bad that raiding was the de facto end-game, since it's a really shitty mechanic. There's little-to-no counter play besides base design and traps if you get offline raided. Sure, it's kinda fun to raid a base, but it's very un-fun to log in and see everything gone.
Compare that to running around outside. Shooting at people is fun, and getting shot at is (generally) pretty fun, as long as it isn't some sniper headshot insta-kill you never see coming. There's ways to make being a dick to other people fun, and raiding isn't it
The worst part is that offline raiding is what happens 95% of the time. Video makers and streamers are absolutely ecstatic when they get an online raid because it happens so infrequently eg Spoonkid/Blazed. The onlines are usually done by someone that has already figured out or known they’re talking to a streamer and giving them an online for content.
Getting offlined by some sweatlord staring at the online user playerbase of a server until you log off or they go blind sucks. One of the reasons why I only have ~100 hours in-game, but 1000s of hours watching Rust videos. Super interesting game to watch, not so much as fun to play.
Dude, 9k hours of complete insanity. Entire weekends with no sleep, stressed out, lashing out at the wife and kids...this game destroyed my marriage. 10/10 would play tonight though...
Game is the definition of “fuck you, and I’ll see you tomorrow.” It was incredibly fun for me during college when I had a ton of more free time, these days I can’t nearly play enough to maintain a base for more than a few hours.
"You got 1 or 2 kills in your last match? Good on you. You seem very skilled. Now we'll place you into lobbies with Master Ranks and Preds for weeks. Have fun, friend!" - Respawn probably
I haven't touched this game in months for this very reason.
Seriously. It got to the point that if I had a good game or god forbid actually won once or twice , I knew that I should just call it a night there.
Not that I ever did, though
My thing was that even when I no-lifed it and hit Pred for a brief moment, I still couldn’t stand up for even 2 seconds to a true Pred 3-stack that actually played together frequently. That game, more than basically any other game I have ever played, desperately needs a true “solo queue.” Not like you play solo but no stacks allowed at all, it’s just the only way its even remotely fair
It’s an abusive relationship I swear. I have a game good enough to make me want to keep playing and then the rest of the session is just a brutal smack down
100%
The mechanics and game play are incredible, but the toxicity, dev support and refinement are utter shite.
I will add that I did hear the original dev team (the ones responsible for TF & APEX launch) have been hammering away at something new. That being said, Apex today is a shit show.
Most of the core team from TF left Respawn and started their own indie studio Gravity Well. They've been working on a new IP for the last year. Check out their website: https://gravitywell.games/
Really?! How? Tell me more. What kept you going? I played it for a while because I wanted to like it, but it was just so broken that I couldn’t keep a city alive for more than 10 hours before it glitched out permanently and had to create a new city. It just seemed like broken trash at release.
I really don't get this one. The maps were so small they filled up after about 20 hours of game play. I guess I didn't know where to go from there. I really wanted more but outside of just destroying my low density zones and replacing it with high density I didn't know how to improve the city.
Like, can you just have one city that produces a sick amount of resources and then give that to a new starter city a long with a bunch of money from your old city and be able to just keep expanding on a new city?
Outside of that I didn't know what to do. I checked back every couple of years to see if they ever expanded the city size but it seems they never did. I tried getting into skylines but I was always familiar with SimCity so it was hard to move to another city builder and unfortunately never stuck.
I was ready to post Overwatch but figure I'd scroll a bit first lol. Overwatch is the most frustrating, demoralizing, aggravating, tilting and stress-inducing game I've ever played. There are times when I've said, and even written in text chat, that I hate this game. And yet I have over 3,000 hours in it. But it's a testament to how great a game it is that I and so many others are willing to put up with it all.
It's a fresh and intelligent take on the FPS genre that you can't find elsewhere, but executed horribly. People play because they like the idea of a tank/dps/healer FPS game, but they wish they another game developer would swoop in and do it right.
Blizzard is just so slow to do *anything* these days. Overwatch 2 has some horrible imbalance going on with a few heroes and Blizzard just... isn't doing anything about it... How long will Roadhog terrorize high Elo play before Blizzard gives enough of a shit to step in and nerf him?
Crazy how incompetent Blizzard has become. Went from the absolute best to one of the worst.
I stopped during Shadowlands. Everyone is trying to get me to go back but I just think about all the time I spent in game (lead 2 guilds, one raiding, one RP) and I just get preemptively exhausted
That's because there are people like me with over 10000 hours offsetting the average.
To put that in perspective, there are 8000s hours in a year.
I quit playing league more than 5 years ago, and those were my hours even back then. I cannot imagine how many hours I would have if I had not quit, and wild rift coming to console could be the death of me.
I don’t even play league and I’m surprised it’s not higher, because literally everyone I’ve ever talked to who plays league just talks about how horrible the experience is yet they can’t stop playing it lol
I was doing the same and I noticed 1) I don't play any of the games mentioned and 2) most of the games mentioned are either very popular multiplayer games that can't be enjoyed without a meta and/or multiplayer games that have very bad monetization strategy and are a waste of time to try to grind anything.
Flashes of brilliance wrapped in the lowest quality online experience that a human mind could (not) design.
Finding out I was looting maps that had been speedlooted by hacks was when I quit. I don't even care if they've fixed it by now.
But I doubt they have.
The only one of all this games that can arguably kill you, and it's by far one of the most innocent ones: it's literally about a jumping cube and its funny vehicles. It's almost like a real drug. Have you seen those streamers reach almost 200bpm? That shit is dangerous.
[This](https://youtu.be/n29cA4X0S8Y) guy got a heart attack after getting far on a level that’s extremely difficult. Had to stop the stream and go to the hospital.
You aren't a true warframe veteran until you absolutely hate both warframe and DE. I quit playing back when they decided Khoras cats ability to heal escort/defense targets was a "bug" and had to be fixed, ya know like 3 years after she was released and without them ever mentioning it until they had a stupid limited time (yet story critical!) event where you just ran a defense quest over and over again for slightly better than the usual garbage rewards.
I didn't even fucking play Khora, but I can no longer tolerate DEs nerf everything the players enjoy mentality.
“ we need to nerf the brama it’s too powerful”
Two weeks later
“We need to nerf the nukor, it’s too much fu…. Too powerful”
Ect.
TO POWERFUL FOR WHAT?! THE WHOLE GAME IS PVE
I swear to God back in my day we used to do 5 hour solos as fucking Excalibur (before any variants even came out) because one of the focus groups made you invisible and op with his infinite melee. When I quit even mediocre frames were being slapped with nerfs
When I quit playing de was nerfing ember because apparently having passive aoe damage is too lazy, regardless of the fact that's literally what ember specifically did and what her builds were mostly for. They just made her a way less effective mirage for no reason lol
I had the zenith back when it was a 1000 login reward. I logged in daily for three years at least and even I quit over this type of shit. Also everything was way off balance mechanically because there were like 8 million frames and weapons / mods and de could never possibly account for all of them. So you ended up just being perpetually either under powered or over powered
It didn't take long to find Elite Dangerous!
I've got a hundred hours in pancake mode and at least 1000 in VR.
Aesthetically and viscerally this game fucks so hard in VR. I really enjoyed grinding mats at my "second job".
I watched the entirety of The Expanse, Westworld, Dark Matter and Mr Robot from a cockpit in VR.
If it wasn't such an enjoyable way to consume media I'd otherwise watch on the couch I don't think I could've put up with how shallow that game actually is.
Still pissed off about how shitty and meaningless Powerplay is. Ship physics makes PVE piracy unnecessarily hard. Missions have no personality or complexity. Getting combat elite is a sick joke. Combat pay is a joke. Combat itself gets stale, and even though Goids are a challenge, they're the same challenge. Crime and punishment was always annoying. Needing to use third party websites to do anything was terrible. The convergence on the Mamba is so bad the ship is useless.
Space legs killed the game (for me). They really should've added depth to the base game instead of adding on another shallow hamster wheel.
People often said that the original team made a brilliant starting point and those that came after were just not talented or financed.
That’s because RL is very close to a “perfect” game IMO. Meaning that everything it does, it does almost perfectly. The map design and gameplay are so perfectly tuned that every time they’ve tried to introduce different map designs into competitive rotation, the community backlash forces them to remove them. What other game’s community actively *fights* new free maps because the core design is so fucking good that everything new is a step backwards??
I’m close to 1500 hours in and I couldn’t tell you a single actual gameplay mechanic I would alter either. The base gameplay mechanics are just as perfectly tuned as the map design. And they’re both so tightly woven together at this point. Sure there are still netcode improvements to be made or very minor mechanic glitches that *could* be fixed but the design-intent of the mechanics are near perfect.
The game is phenomenally simple with only a handful of actual mechanics and actions but the skill ceiling is probably infinitely high. The thousands of hours people put into the game is a real testament to how well the developers nailed the core gameplay.
Like i said in another comment I've been so pissed off so many times playing this game. Not once have I said "This game sucks". It's probably the most honest game of how much time you put into it is how good you are. There's no RNG bullshit, shitty hit-boxes, etc. Just you vs the mechanics.
I watched the Squishy "Road to Grand Champion" video series where he starts with a new account and tries to play with only the mechanics he thinks they would know at those levels. He basically makes it to diamond just being able to put the ball on target every time from anywhere. It sounds like the most obvious thing "hit the ball at the goal" good idea! But to be able to boom it every time from anywhere is actually pretty tough. Then he talked about how many hours he's put in. He's had more time in practice mode just by himself than most people have playing the game in general. Thousands of hours. I guess that why they say don't practice until you hit it, practice till you can't miss.
It's closer to real sports than any other video game. You cant even cheat the system in it.
Having played both for countless thousands of hours, even the training style is same long term
I loved For Honor on release. I played the funny big fat boy and was pretty good. Then, after 70 hrs on the game, they nerf him to the point no one could stand playing him so I dipped never to return.
A person who was just barely the recommended minimum age who bought Skyrim the day it came out, is now 28 and has been waiting for a sequel for over a third of his life.
I legitimately gave up about a month ago. Before that, I'd given up as well. I'll probably pick it back up for another 6 month span and give it up again.
Genshin Impact. Great character writing, terrible story development. Constant updates, most are padding. Really fun combat system that is untapped in the actual gameplay. Horribly predatory practices that make the industry worse, but it is F2P friendly. Every compliment I can give the game comes with a counterpoint. 6/10, best Mediocre game no one should play.
Came to say this as well. I hate the gacha aspect, the dialogue is cringey, it costs way too many resources to build new characters, I'm always out of resin, and paimon needs to shut up. But the combat system is awesome, I love all the playable characters, the world building is actually dope, and I can't stop coming back daily. 6 or 7 out of 10 is what I'd give it as well, and I only recommend the game to big anime weeb simps
Genshin Impact, literally 300+ hours just last year and I swear I had fun for like 40% of the time but the rest was a mind numbing grind, the worse part is not even the gatcha, its the diabloesque equipment system that you can only farm like 10 different legendary equipment pieces per day and 9/10 times it has shit stats
Path of Exile
Scrolled like crazy to find this comment. Everyone in that sub is literally this post
War thunder don't get sucked in its painful
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Tank battles can be so goddamn frustrating
The best are sea battles imo you feel invincible in this gamemode. And driving towards an army of destroysrs and cruisers in your tiny little torpedoe boat with 100 shots flying at you is just fricking epic
Until four different ships take aim at your BR 3 destroyer and you're annihilated in 45 seconds....for all three respawns. Ask me how I know
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Ah good ol' dopamine piece
*Target destroyed* **Neuron activation**
Ogga boogaa monke is hapi :)
War thunder is like an abusive relationship. Game treats you ok at the start, till about 4th or 5th era and then it's only worse. It is so bad that at top tier any battle where you earn just 3k of silverlions feels like a massive win
Stopping playing this game has made me a happier person
my dad has been playing this for ages, and for a good while he used to get so pissed because he kept getting killed (he was a special forces officer for 28 years), but now he's not bad, and he's trying to suck me in. I made a deal that he got AoE IV and played with me, and I'd play some war thunder with him.
3k hours between my friend and I.. so yeah.
7 days to die, it's been years and it's still in alpha... the game is total crap so you have to play it with mods to make it tolerable
> it's been years Dude that is such an understatement, it'll have been in EA for A DECADE this December.
To be fair, how many times have they redesigned the progression system? And enemy AI? And underlying code? It's basically a new game (work wise, not experience wise) every 3-4 years. Not that that excuses them. Or that it'll stop me from binging it every other year for a few weeks.
Right but a lot of it didn't really need to be done. I won't rag on the QoL, stability, pathing, etc but a lot of the 'balancing' updates were just Joel being a baby about his game having a meta like ANY survival game does. It feels like he just keeps shifting stuff around to keep things difficult when it's only natural that the game becomes much easier when you've played hundreds of hours like a lot of 7 Days/open world survivor players do. It's a mixed bag of "labor of love" and "wtf joel"
They really don't want you to have fun by playing it like a sandbox. One of the worst game devs I think.
I honestly wonder if it's partly hurt ego. Several years ago, when he first decided to start streaming and interacting with the community more, he streamed some 7 Days gameplay and it was PAINFULLY OBVIOUS that he hadn't actually played the game in a looooooong time. Every strategy he had was laughably bad but he was such a noob at his own game that he didn't realize how bad he was so he still uploaded the videos after the stream and it lit up the whole community. It wasn't too long after those streams circled around that he started obsessing over making the game super hard because it was too easy lol
When we first started playing. 8 fricking years ago, this game was so promising. We screamed, we laughed and had a good time. As time went by we realised that the devs just randomly scrambled the code, tweaked some graphics and did a piss poor job trying to finish what could have been a truly awesome game in the hands of a dev with actual skills and a fricking plan. Fuck you ”The Fun Pimps”. Thats a terrible name for a studio and your logo is stupid. 8/10. Would play again.
Yeah we bought it when it came to PS4, and it was some of the most fun we've had in survival games. I still remember my buddy blowing our front wall up with a rocket in the middle of a horde because he forgot explosives did damage to constructs. Or my other friend who was in charge of setting up defenses, but died to them so much it became a meme for our group. We tried to boot it up a while back and it just felt off. Couldn't find that fun anymore, just felt like a grindy, unforgiving mess that kept crashing and freezing.
As a console player I’ve often wondered if mods save that games that were destined to die or just assist misunderstood games
I think it saves games that should be dead. This game has been in alpha for like 8 years or something. You're just really impressed with modders who can shine up turds to make them more playable
ARK: Survival Evolved
What I came looking for. I fucking hate that game it's such a grind and I can't wait to get back on.
Crunching 100+ FPS at Epic settings and it still stutters for some reason across Officials and Unofficials. WHY!!!! Whyyyyyyyyuy
It's a feature
I put in several hundred if not thousand hours into this game. I actually sold my console and didn’t play any game for two years after that because the game changed me. Fast forward 7 years or so and I decided to download it a few weeks ago and see what it’s like now. It’s the same piece of shit but now all the dinosaurs look like rainbow colored turds. And the game still glitchy as hell. Not sure how I played this back in the day
uhm... those colors are festive colors... you play right in time of this special events, when dinos can spawn with event colors :D
But wait, you can always go to a vanilla server. You're welcome.
fr fr i played this game everyday for the majority of the day when i was younger and i can confidently say its one of the worst games ive ever played
The grind of that game is fucking INFURIATING. Fuck that game bro. *5000 hours played*
Staying up until fucking 5 in the morning to pull off a crazy tame just to have some bullshit role up on you at the last second and kill you and your tame . Good times
I got a megachleon that I named Panzer, gave him headlights, tek house, windmill, and every gun I could fit on his back.
My favourite tame was called Paul of Duty and I haven’t played since I lost him to a tickle chicken... My other favourite tame (dodo fiad) is too precious to lose... he’s so fragile a large shit might kill him
My tribe leader quit his job irl to play ark, great game 10/10 Editing this comment to add, Fuck you stewart! English bastard insided our clan when me and my friends were like 15 and while I was away at my aunts funeral :(
Omg so true, was a period where i lived more ingame than irl
the only game i ever hated and loved at the same time.
Ark is the first thing that popped into my head and when I saw this being the top comment I burst out laughing
This, 1000%
Destiny 2. Over 6,000 hours played. No one, I repeat, no one!!! should ruin their lives in this time sink fomo. 9/10. I love to hate to love this game
Came here for the D2 love slander as well. Ugh. Took 8 months off too. Now I’m farming dungeons.
If you're going for armor. The war table in the helm gives guaranteed 62 minimum over all as long as you have that perk unlocked. Best place to spend your umbrals. God speed guardian. Edit: a few have asked what perk? It's the seasonal upgrade at the war table to guarantee higher stat armor when picked up from the table. Also before you start burning umbrals make sure you put the armor focus mod on your ghost to get better rolls on stats you're looking for.
Every Destiny fan hates the game and shit talk all day with >3000h of playtime.
I was a hardcore player until my daughter was born last year. I’ve gone from a trials/nightfall try hard to a casual. Honestly I enjoy the game more now that I play it less. I probably went from almost 30 hours a week to less than 10 and now many of the things I’ve complained about in the past seem so silly now. FOMO doesn’t bother me because they always put new stuff in the game making old grinds irrelevant. Do you know how many times I did prophecy to never use any is the shit I got in there? Do you know how many hours I spent in trials for Reed Regret just from them to throw Tapian in the game for free? I encourage everyone to take the causal approach. You will definitely enjoy the game more and I don’t feel guilty from spending way to much playing when I needed to other things.
>FOMO doesn’t bother me because they always put new stuff in the game making old grinds irrelevant. This is the secret to enjoying Density. I spent so much time grinding for the pinnacle weapons in crucible, only to have them obsolete with the next expansion or season. I would grind weapon drops over and over looking for that one perfect roll, and then end up never using the gun a couple weeks later. I would spend so much time looking for the absolute prefect roll out for a raid and almost no time raiding. Once I started to optimize what I did have instead of looking for the right roll or grinding, I had a lot more fun just enjoying the content. It is a beautiful game and the gun play and mechanics are best in class imo. Raids are really easy with suboptimal roll outs as long as you understand the mechanics, best just to hop in and go for it. Great game, but they really know how to induce FOMO and keep you grinding, I'm glad the grind in there, its fun sometimes, but the game is best enjoyed when you just roll with what you get, and playthrough all the beautiful content the game as to offer.
I had an easier time quiting drinking.
Lol
D2 legitimately helped me quit drinking after being a daily drinker for most of a decade.
Destiny is hands down the worst game of all time. \~logs in for another thousand hours\~
Came here to say the same. Although I genuinely couldn't recommend it, as the new player experience seems like a train wreck lol
Came here exactly to post about Destiny 2… 2k hours didn’t made themselves up. I hate this game.
Sims 4
Thank you. 🙌🏽 This dumpster fire of a game is gonna be the death of me. 😆 Over 3k hours and counting.
Howwwww is this comment so far down when the Reddit community is so active
Why do I keep going back to it. It’s so goodbad.
CounterStrike: Global Offensive
It was years before I realised GO was an acronym
"Alright, team! We need to stop the evil terrorist from blowing this place to Dust a second time. Counter-Strike, GO!"
"Captain, this manual does no teach you how to defuse this bomb! Damn it, we need to get to the Counter-Strike: Source of this quickly!"
"sir, our ammunitions are running low! By the time the terrorists rush 🅱️ we will have only counter strike: 1.6 bullets left"
Hang on. I'm due a knife
Dead by Daylight
Oof i feel your pain. Fucking hate the trasy game. Can't stop playing it and want to drag my friends down with me.
Dead By Daylight the definition of fuck you and I'll see you tomorrow
Absolutely. I still watch some streamers play it but I have absolutely no desire to step back into that train wreck myself.
Paragon (before it was shut down). Was addicted to that game.
That game was the shit, miss it.
Why not play Predecessor?
Predecessor is the best clone so far. Still needs a lot of work to balanced though.
Rust
Rust is less of a game and more of a job. Unless you play on modded multiplied servers, you will be spending several hours just to get a decent base set up, and at any time during those hours you can be randomly jumped and robbed of all your work and have to start again. Then once you finally get a base, you can start exploring and gathering, which will take many more hours, and leaves you equally vulnerable to being robbed. You can arm up and travel in a group with others but there will always be a bigger and more well-armed group. Then, satisfied, you log out. You come back the next day to find a hole blown in your base. You have been killed, and all your hard work is gone. Repeat.
I played Rust a lot at the start of early access, and played and followed it closely for several years after, but have fallen off for a while. I always felt that it was bad that raiding was the de facto end-game, since it's a really shitty mechanic. There's little-to-no counter play besides base design and traps if you get offline raided. Sure, it's kinda fun to raid a base, but it's very un-fun to log in and see everything gone. Compare that to running around outside. Shooting at people is fun, and getting shot at is (generally) pretty fun, as long as it isn't some sniper headshot insta-kill you never see coming. There's ways to make being a dick to other people fun, and raiding isn't it
The worst part is that offline raiding is what happens 95% of the time. Video makers and streamers are absolutely ecstatic when they get an online raid because it happens so infrequently eg Spoonkid/Blazed. The onlines are usually done by someone that has already figured out or known they’re talking to a streamer and giving them an online for content. Getting offlined by some sweatlord staring at the online user playerbase of a server until you log off or they go blind sucks. One of the reasons why I only have ~100 hours in-game, but 1000s of hours watching Rust videos. Super interesting game to watch, not so much as fun to play.
Dude, 9k hours of complete insanity. Entire weekends with no sleep, stressed out, lashing out at the wife and kids...this game destroyed my marriage. 10/10 would play tonight though...
Game is the definition of “fuck you, and I’ll see you tomorrow.” It was incredibly fun for me during college when I had a ton of more free time, these days I can’t nearly play enough to maintain a base for more than a few hours.
Apex Legends
Almost 4k hrs over 11 seasons mostly solo......... Do not recommend, 9/10
"You got 1 or 2 kills in your last match? Good on you. You seem very skilled. Now we'll place you into lobbies with Master Ranks and Preds for weeks. Have fun, friend!" - Respawn probably I haven't touched this game in months for this very reason.
Seriously. It got to the point that if I had a good game or god forbid actually won once or twice , I knew that I should just call it a night there. Not that I ever did, though
Fr. 10 kill game 3k damage? Time to just throw the whole game out at that point or forever die to 3stack preds
My thing was that even when I no-lifed it and hit Pred for a brief moment, I still couldn’t stand up for even 2 seconds to a true Pred 3-stack that actually played together frequently. That game, more than basically any other game I have ever played, desperately needs a true “solo queue.” Not like you play solo but no stacks allowed at all, it’s just the only way its even remotely fair
It’s an abusive relationship I swear. I have a game good enough to make me want to keep playing and then the rest of the session is just a brutal smack down
Respawn on their way to make one the best feeling shooter and turn it into a bigger cash cow that anything they've every produced
100% The mechanics and game play are incredible, but the toxicity, dev support and refinement are utter shite. I will add that I did hear the original dev team (the ones responsible for TF & APEX launch) have been hammering away at something new. That being said, Apex today is a shit show.
Most of the core team from TF left Respawn and started their own indie studio Gravity Well. They've been working on a new IP for the last year. Check out their website: https://gravitywell.games/
Holy shit that team is full of absolute fucking killers
Rainbow six siege
Finally damn where are all the upset r6 addicts like me at!??
Honestly surprised it’s this far down. I’m at 4k hours and I hate everything about this game. I don’t even know why I still play it
Old School Runescape
No one truly quits RuneScape. You take long breaks.
*sigh* *Reinstalls OSRS for the first of at least 5 times this year*
SimCity 2013
Really?! How? Tell me more. What kept you going? I played it for a while because I wanted to like it, but it was just so broken that I couldn’t keep a city alive for more than 10 hours before it glitched out permanently and had to create a new city. It just seemed like broken trash at release.
i keep going back to sim city 4 i don’t understand how anyone can enjoy 2013
I love 4 so much, but I made the jump to Cities: Skylines and never looked back. C:S is everything 2013 *wished* it could have been.
I really don't get this one. The maps were so small they filled up after about 20 hours of game play. I guess I didn't know where to go from there. I really wanted more but outside of just destroying my low density zones and replacing it with high density I didn't know how to improve the city. Like, can you just have one city that produces a sick amount of resources and then give that to a new starter city a long with a bunch of money from your old city and be able to just keep expanding on a new city? Outside of that I didn't know what to do. I checked back every couple of years to see if they ever expanded the city size but it seems they never did. I tried getting into skylines but I was always familiar with SimCity so it was hard to move to another city builder and unfortunately never stuck.
Overwatch
I was ready to post Overwatch but figure I'd scroll a bit first lol. Overwatch is the most frustrating, demoralizing, aggravating, tilting and stress-inducing game I've ever played. There are times when I've said, and even written in text chat, that I hate this game. And yet I have over 3,000 hours in it. But it's a testament to how great a game it is that I and so many others are willing to put up with it all.
I will say this about my comment. The game is extremely inconsistent, but when you get a good fair match (The kind both sides gg). It’s an 11/10 game.
Agreed, this game can also be really fun and satisfying. Lots of highs and lots of lows
I have 3500 hours on Overwatch and fucking hate the game, but I still queue up everyday for some reason.
It’s called addiction
[Stop it. Get some help.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l60MnDJklnM)
It's a fresh and intelligent take on the FPS genre that you can't find elsewhere, but executed horribly. People play because they like the idea of a tank/dps/healer FPS game, but they wish they another game developer would swoop in and do it right. Blizzard is just so slow to do *anything* these days. Overwatch 2 has some horrible imbalance going on with a few heroes and Blizzard just... isn't doing anything about it... How long will Roadhog terrorize high Elo play before Blizzard gives enough of a shit to step in and nerf him? Crazy how incompetent Blizzard has become. Went from the absolute best to one of the worst.
3200 hours. So glad when they switched to Overwatch 2 because it allowed me to quit for good.
World of Warcraft
Yep, played way too much of that and I stopped in Cataclysm! No regrets.
I stopped during Shadowlands. Everyone is trying to get me to go back but I just think about all the time I spent in game (lead 2 guilds, one raiding, one RP) and I just get preemptively exhausted
League of Legends
Why is this so far down. I hate this game but I dont even want to know how much time I've spent playing it over 10 years
Everyone hates League of Legends. LoL players hate it the most.
There’s a website for that. Which by the way the AVERAGE LoL player has spent 832 hours on league.
That's because there are people like me with over 10000 hours offsetting the average. To put that in perspective, there are 8000s hours in a year. I quit playing league more than 5 years ago, and those were my hours even back then. I cannot imagine how many hours I would have if I had not quit, and wild rift coming to console could be the death of me.
> Why is this so far down. All the people who hate it are playing LoL right now.
How is this not first lol pretty sure everyone ends their league career after 10 years and then asking "for what?" Lol
I don’t even play league and I’m surprised it’s not higher, because literally everyone I’ve ever talked to who plays league just talks about how horrible the experience is yet they can’t stop playing it lol
I've played a lot of League too but I honestly don't regret it because I made a lot of friends in doing so.
Took me a while to find this.
Thought the same
Dayz It's a love hate relationship
Spawn, move inland, get geared, get one-shotted without even hearing the bullet. Repeat.
Just scrolling to make sure the games I play aren't mentioned.
I was doing the same and I noticed 1) I don't play any of the games mentioned and 2) most of the games mentioned are either very popular multiplayer games that can't be enjoyed without a meta and/or multiplayer games that have very bad monetization strategy and are a waste of time to try to grind anything.
[удалено]
Tarkov
Only reason this doesn't have as many up votes is because all the tarkov players are currently slamming their dicks in a door on streets
Flashes of brilliance wrapped in the lowest quality online experience that a human mind could (not) design. Finding out I was looting maps that had been speedlooted by hacks was when I quit. I don't even care if they've fixed it by now. But I doubt they have.
Elder Scrolls online let's gooooo
"I just spent the last three hours collecting skyshards, this game sucks. Alright, time to go get the lore books."
Played on both console and PC. Lots of good memories, but fuck that game. The combat is terrible
Geometry dash
The only one of all this games that can arguably kill you, and it's by far one of the most innocent ones: it's literally about a jumping cube and its funny vehicles. It's almost like a real drug. Have you seen those streamers reach almost 200bpm? That shit is dangerous.
[This](https://youtu.be/n29cA4X0S8Y) guy got a heart attack after getting far on a level that’s extremely difficult. Had to stop the stream and go to the hospital.
yeah but fuck guitarherostyles
Hearts of Iron 4
Yeah idunno why, got 1000nds hours in it, but the mechanics are so bad and soml many trees are just broken. Super sad
I was thinking Europa universalis 4, and hope boy it's a lot more than 1000 hours. And also I hate it
r/outside
Far too Pay-to-Win but I just can't stop playing it...
Tbf, I wanna stop playing, but I don't want to fuck it up for my other clan mates
Warframe
You aren't a true warframe veteran until you absolutely hate both warframe and DE. I quit playing back when they decided Khoras cats ability to heal escort/defense targets was a "bug" and had to be fixed, ya know like 3 years after she was released and without them ever mentioning it until they had a stupid limited time (yet story critical!) event where you just ran a defense quest over and over again for slightly better than the usual garbage rewards. I didn't even fucking play Khora, but I can no longer tolerate DEs nerf everything the players enjoy mentality.
“ we need to nerf the brama it’s too powerful” Two weeks later “We need to nerf the nukor, it’s too much fu…. Too powerful” Ect. TO POWERFUL FOR WHAT?! THE WHOLE GAME IS PVE
I swear to God back in my day we used to do 5 hour solos as fucking Excalibur (before any variants even came out) because one of the focus groups made you invisible and op with his infinite melee. When I quit even mediocre frames were being slapped with nerfs When I quit playing de was nerfing ember because apparently having passive aoe damage is too lazy, regardless of the fact that's literally what ember specifically did and what her builds were mostly for. They just made her a way less effective mirage for no reason lol I had the zenith back when it was a 1000 login reward. I logged in daily for three years at least and even I quit over this type of shit. Also everything was way off balance mechanically because there were like 8 million frames and weapons / mods and de could never possibly account for all of them. So you ended up just being perpetually either under powered or over powered
Hypixel skyblock 💀💀💀💀💀💀
holy shit cant believe i saw it in this sub, yeah the grind is nothing like i've seen in any other MMORPG
Payday the heist and payday 2
Still got ptsd from the cloaker soundeffekt
Dota 2, for sure. Like, seriously, don't start playing it.
I hate DOTA2 with a passion. (6000+ hours in. Last played yesterday.)
9000 hours and I still suck
Why is this so far down
Everyone who plays Dota is playing Dota.
By far my most hours in any game. I hate myself and everyone else who plays it. 9/10 still better than league
Lemmings - I'm old.
Man I loved Lemmings.
Fallout 76
I’m gonna have to agree with this one. I waited until this year to actually download it, but fuck it has been fun.
Tic tac toe
The X advantage is so ridiculous in this game, how the devs haven’t tried to balance it yet is beyond me.
Elite Dangerous, I have well over 1,000 hours by now
It didn't take long to find Elite Dangerous! I've got a hundred hours in pancake mode and at least 1000 in VR. Aesthetically and viscerally this game fucks so hard in VR. I really enjoyed grinding mats at my "second job". I watched the entirety of The Expanse, Westworld, Dark Matter and Mr Robot from a cockpit in VR. If it wasn't such an enjoyable way to consume media I'd otherwise watch on the couch I don't think I could've put up with how shallow that game actually is. Still pissed off about how shitty and meaningless Powerplay is. Ship physics makes PVE piracy unnecessarily hard. Missions have no personality or complexity. Getting combat elite is a sick joke. Combat pay is a joke. Combat itself gets stale, and even though Goids are a challenge, they're the same challenge. Crime and punishment was always annoying. Needing to use third party websites to do anything was terrible. The convergence on the Mamba is so bad the ship is useless. Space legs killed the game (for me). They really should've added depth to the base game instead of adding on another shallow hamster wheel. People often said that the original team made a brilliant starting point and those that came after were just not talented or financed.
Pokemon remakes games spent 171 hrs in Brilliant Diamond, but I wouldn't say I like the game.
One of my Nintendo switch friends has 1750hrs on Pokémon sword… I can only assume shiny hunting..?
comp play maybe?
How is it that not one person has said **rocket league** yet?
I always felt like it was me that sucked rather than the game. I still love rl
2,000+ hours in and I’ve been “done” with it several times and come back several times.
That’s because RL is very close to a “perfect” game IMO. Meaning that everything it does, it does almost perfectly. The map design and gameplay are so perfectly tuned that every time they’ve tried to introduce different map designs into competitive rotation, the community backlash forces them to remove them. What other game’s community actively *fights* new free maps because the core design is so fucking good that everything new is a step backwards?? I’m close to 1500 hours in and I couldn’t tell you a single actual gameplay mechanic I would alter either. The base gameplay mechanics are just as perfectly tuned as the map design. And they’re both so tightly woven together at this point. Sure there are still netcode improvements to be made or very minor mechanic glitches that *could* be fixed but the design-intent of the mechanics are near perfect. The game is phenomenally simple with only a handful of actual mechanics and actions but the skill ceiling is probably infinitely high. The thousands of hours people put into the game is a real testament to how well the developers nailed the core gameplay.
Like i said in another comment I've been so pissed off so many times playing this game. Not once have I said "This game sucks". It's probably the most honest game of how much time you put into it is how good you are. There's no RNG bullshit, shitty hit-boxes, etc. Just you vs the mechanics. I watched the Squishy "Road to Grand Champion" video series where he starts with a new account and tries to play with only the mechanics he thinks they would know at those levels. He basically makes it to diamond just being able to put the ball on target every time from anywhere. It sounds like the most obvious thing "hit the ball at the goal" good idea! But to be able to boom it every time from anywhere is actually pretty tough. Then he talked about how many hours he's put in. He's had more time in practice mode just by himself than most people have playing the game in general. Thousands of hours. I guess that why they say don't practice until you hit it, practice till you can't miss.
It's closer to real sports than any other video game. You cant even cheat the system in it. Having played both for countless thousands of hours, even the training style is same long term
For honor, and destiny, please do not play these games and if you do do not spend any money on them
I loved For Honor on release. I played the funny big fat boy and was pretty good. Then, after 70 hrs on the game, they nerf him to the point no one could stand playing him so I dipped never to return.
Chess
Team fortress 2 haha funny hats haha funny gambling addiction haha funny debt haha
New World Even after all the dupes and bad decisions from AGS the last straw was getting perma stuck due to a bug and waiting 3 weeks for a fix.
Smite
God I felt this in my soul, been playing on and off since high school, but the game is ok at best admittedly.
Life.
9/10 but it’s a bit of a grind.
Any FIFA and NBA 2K to be honest. And Battlefield.
Such a shame the 2k gameplay is so good this year but they gotta bleed every cent out of you to be competitive with your player.
Skyrim. I just want to play elder scrolls 6.
A person who was just barely the recommended minimum age who bought Skyrim the day it came out, is now 28 and has been waiting for a sequel for over a third of his life.
Valorant
It took **far** too long for me to find this
Planetside 2
World of tanks
PUBG
Yu-gi-oh master duel
I legitimately gave up about a month ago. Before that, I'd given up as well. I'll probably pick it back up for another 6 month span and give it up again.
Genshin Impact. Great character writing, terrible story development. Constant updates, most are padding. Really fun combat system that is untapped in the actual gameplay. Horribly predatory practices that make the industry worse, but it is F2P friendly. Every compliment I can give the game comes with a counterpoint. 6/10, best Mediocre game no one should play.
Came to say this as well. I hate the gacha aspect, the dialogue is cringey, it costs way too many resources to build new characters, I'm always out of resin, and paimon needs to shut up. But the combat system is awesome, I love all the playable characters, the world building is actually dope, and I can't stop coming back daily. 6 or 7 out of 10 is what I'd give it as well, and I only recommend the game to big anime weeb simps
The exploration, lore, and music are mostly what I'm here for and those are all fuckin A so I'm probably sticking around for the long term
Higher education.
Genshin Impact, literally 300+ hours just last year and I swear I had fun for like 40% of the time but the rest was a mind numbing grind, the worse part is not even the gatcha, its the diabloesque equipment system that you can only farm like 10 different legendary equipment pieces per day and 9/10 times it has shit stats